History of a street · 1030 Schaerbeek

Avenue Herbert Hoover

In Dutch: Herbert Hooverlaan

Avenue Herbert Hoover, in Schaerbeek, has 44 buildings on the Atlas map, for 44 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 50% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. Almost everything there appears after 1914.

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When the street was built

before 14000
1400 – 15990
1600 – 16990
1700 – 17990
1800 – 18490
1850 – 18790
1880 – 19130
1914 – 194413
1945 – 196922
1970 – 19898
1990 – 20091
since 20100

No building in the street is dated by the heritage inventory: the years are estimates by district.

Today's buildings, grouped by the period when the Atlas map first shows building on their plot. Approximate reconstruction.

Where its name comes from

Kind of name: Commemorative name
Theme: First World War
Named in: 1938

Herbert Hoover (1874 – 1964), président du Comité de ravitaillement pour la Belgique durant la Première Guerre mondiale, puis président des Etats-Unis entre 1929 et 1933. (remark in French, as published)

Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.